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Peak (game studio)
Peak Games is an Istanbul-based mobile gaming company founded by Sidar Şahin in 2010, known for Toy Blast and Toon Blast and acquired by Zynga in 2020.
Perimeter 81
Perimeter 81 is an Israeli cloud and network security company founded in 2018 in Tel Aviv by Sagi Gidali and Amit Bareket, acquired by Check Point in 2023.
Phil Reynolds
Phil Reynolds is an Australian technology finance executive who co-founded Pyypl, a UAE-based financial services platform for the unbanked, in 2017 with Antti Arponen, whom he met at Virgin Mobile Middle East and Africa.
Pierre Saad
Pierre Saad is an Egyptian software engineer and entrepreneur, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Trella, the Cairo-based digital freight marketplace serving Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the UAE.
Postpay
Postpay is a buy now, pay later fintech founded in Dubai in 2019 by Tariq Sheikh and Dani Molina Carmona, offering interest-free installments in the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
Powermat Technologies
Powermat Technologies is an Israeli wireless-charging company founded by Ran Poliakine in 2006 and headquartered in Petah Tikva, Israel, whose patents are largely standard-essential to the Qi wireless-charging standard.
Pure Harvest Smart Farms
Pure Harvest Smart Farms is an Abu Dhabi agritech company founded in 2016 by Sky Kurtz and Robert Kupstas, growing vegetables in climate-controlled desert greenhouses.
Pyypl
Pyypl, pronounced "people," is a fintech company founded in 2017 by Antti Arponen and Phil Reynolds, offering prepaid cards and remittances without a bank account.
Q.ai
Q.ai, officially Q (Cue) Ltd., is an Israeli artificial intelligence startup founded in 2022 in Ramat Gan, acquired by Apple in 2026 for a reported $1.5–2 billion.
Rami Levy Communications
Rami Levy Communications is an Israeli mobile virtual network operator owned by the Rami Levy supermarket group, launched in Jerusalem in 2011, reselling Pelephone network capacity at discount prices.
Rapyd
Rapyd (ראפיד) is a fintech company founded in Israel in 2015 that lets businesses accept payments, send payouts, and issue cards in over 100 countries.
Retailo
Retailo is a B2B e-commerce and digital distribution marketplace headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, founded in July 2020 by three former Careem executives to supply small grocery shops and restaurants.
Riskified
Riskified is an Israeli-founded, NYSE-listed technology company, trading as RSKD since 2021, that reviews e-commerce orders and reimburses merchants for approved orders that turn out fraudulent.
Rita Huang Zhen
Rita Huang Zhen (黄珍) is a Chinese entrepreneur and former Huawei and Alibaba executive who founded iMile Delivery in Dubai in 2017, a logistics company covering 30 countries.
Robert Kupstas
Robert Kupstas is an American-trained energy-policy specialist and entrepreneur who co-founded Pure Harvest Smart Farms, a high-tech greenhouse farming company in Abu Dhabi, in 2016.
Roey Izkovsky
Roey Izkovsky was an Israeli technology entrepreneur who co-founded Simply (formerly JoyTunes), the Tel Aviv music-learning app company, serving as CTO and building its acoustic recognition technology; Simply reached unicorn status in 2021.
Ronaldo Mouchawar
Ronaldo Mouchawar (رونالدو مشحور) is a Syrian entrepreneur who co-founded Souq.com, the Arab world's largest e-commerce platform, in Dubai in 2005 and led it until Amazon acquired it in 2017.
Roy Mann
Roy Mann (רוי מן) is an Israeli software entrepreneur who co-founded monday.com in Tel Aviv in 2012 and has served as its Co-CEO since, taking the company public on the Nasdaq in 2021.
Saeid Mohammadi
Saeid Mohammadi (سعید محمدی) is an Iranian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Digikala, Iran's largest e-commerce marketplace, with his twin brother Hamid in Tehran in 2006.
Sagi Gidali
Sagi Gidali is an Israeli cybersecurity entrepreneur who co-founded SaferVPN and Perimeter 81 with Amit Bareket; Check Point acquired Perimeter 81 for about $490 million in 2023.
Saman Darkan
Saman Darkan is a Dubai-based technology executive who co-founded Kitopi, a managed cloud kitchen platform, in 2018, and serves as its Chief Technology and Product Officer.
Sami Alhelwah
Sami Alhelwah, also printed Al-Helwah or Alhulwah, is a Saudi entrepreneur and founder of Nana, an online grocery delivery service, which he has led as CEO since August 2016.
Sarwa
Sarwa is a UAE fintech and investment platform founded in 2017 and headquartered in Abu Dhabi, combining managed ETF portfolios with self-directed trading in US stocks, options, and crypto.
Sary
Sary is a Saudi B2B e-commerce marketplace founded in Riyadh in 2018 by Mohammed Aldossary and Khaled Alsiari, connecting small businesses with wholesalers; it merged with Bangladesh's ShopUp in 2025 to form SILQ Group.
Shaul Shani
Shaul Shani is an Israeli technology entrepreneur and investor who founded the Brazilian telecom GVT, sold to Vivendi for $4.5 billion in 2009, and cofounded XM Cyber.
Shlomo Kramer
Shlomo Kramer (שלמה קרמר) is an Israeli cybersecurity entrepreneur, called the Godfather of Israeli cybersecurity, who co-founded Check Point, Imperva, and Cato Networks and leads Cato as CEO.
Sidar Sahin
Sidar Şahin, born around 1980, is a Turkish gaming entrepreneur who founded Peak, the Istanbul mobile gaming company behind Toon Blast and Toy Blast, sold to Zynga in 2020 for $1.8 billion.
Simply
Simply, until July 2022 called JoyTunes, is an Israeli developer of subscription apps that teach musical instruments, best known for Simply Piano and valued at $1 billion in 2021.
Sina Afra
Sina Afra, born 1968, is a Turkish internet entrepreneur based in Istanbul, best known as founder and chief executive of the e-commerce company Markafoni from 2008 to 2014.
Sky Kurtz
Sky Kurtz is the co-founder and CEO of Pure Harvest Smart Farms, an Abu Dhabi agribusiness growing produce in climate-controlled desert greenhouses, founded in 2016.